(noun) a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc.; "he put an ice pack on the injury as a precaution"; "an insurance policy is a good safeguard"; "we let our guard down"

(noun) a document or escort providing safe passage through a region especially in time of war

(verb) call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony; "We remembered the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz"; "Remember the dead of the First World War"

(verb) be or provide a memorial to a person or an event; "This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps"; "We memorialized the Dead"

(verb) mark by some ceremony or observation; "We marked the anniversary of his death"

(adjective satellite) tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans; "Punic faith"; "the perfidious Judas"; "the fiercest and most treacherous of foes"; "treacherous intrigues"

(noun) the spatial property of the way in which something is placed; "the arrangement of the furniture"; "the placement of the chairs"

(noun) an organized structure for arranging or classifying; "he changed the arrangement of the topics"; "the facts were familiar but it was in the organization of them that he was original"; "he tried to understand their system of classification"

(noun) the thing arranged or agreed to; "they made arrangements to meet in Chicago"

(noun) a piece of music that has been adapted for performance by a particular set of voices or instruments

(noun) an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging; "a flower arrangement"

(noun) game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games; "he taught me to set up the men on the chess board"; "he sacrificed a piece to get a strategic advantage"

(noun) a work of art of some artistic value; "this store sells only objets d'art"; "it is not known who created this piece"

(noun) a separate part of a whole; "an important piece of the evidence"

(noun) an item that is an instance of some type; "he designed a new piece of equipment"; "she bought a lovely piece of china";

(noun) a distance; "it is down the road a piece"

(noun) an artistic or literary composition; "he wrote an interesting piece on Iran"; "the children acted out a comic piece to amuse the guests"

(noun) a musical work that has been created; "the composition is written in four movements"

(noun) an instance of some kind; "it was a nice piece of work"; "he had a bit of good luck"

(noun) a serving that has been cut from a larger portion; "a piece of pie"; "a slice of bread"

(noun) a portion of a natural object; "they analyzed the river into three parts"; "he needed a piece of granite"

(noun) a share of something; "a slice of the company's revenue"

(noun) a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition; "he was here for a little while"; "I need to rest for a piece"; "a spell of good weather"; "a patch of bad weather"

(verb) repair by adding pieces; "She pieced the china cup"

(verb) eat intermittently; take small bites of; "He pieced at the sandwich all morning"; "She never eats a full meal--she just nibbles"

(verb) join during spinning; "piece the broken pieces of thread, slivers, and rovings"

(verb) to join or unite the pieces of; "patch the skirt"

(verb) make by putting pieces together; "She pieced a quilt"; "He tacked together some verses"

(adjective satellite) uncertain as a sign or indication; "the evidence from bacteriologic analysis was equivocal"

(adjective) open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead; "an equivocal statement"; "the polling had a complex and equivocal (or ambiguous) message for potential female candidates"; "the officer's equivo

(adjective satellite) open to question; "aliens of equivocal loyalty"; "his conscience reproached him with the equivocal character of the union into which he had forced his son"-Anna Jameson

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